Trump administration officials are increasingly employing religious symbolism to justify the Iran war and other unpopular ...

LONDON, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kleene.ai, the AI-native data platform for mid-market and enterprise brands, today ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

Books ahoy! The new year promises adventures, escapes, and mind-bending delights for bibliophiles of all stripes. For fiction lovers, there’s George Saunders’ wild ride of a second novel, Ann Patchett ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

In this prodigiously researched epic, Torigian details the life of Xi Zhongxun—the father of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping—to explain the history of the Chinese Communist Party. Along the way, ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Anna Holmes has never forgotten reading Judy Blume’s Forever as a tween. Why? Because the book, published 50 ...

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company ...